Green

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From Torteguero

almost full frame, cropped from above; so close to the boat

7D 100-400@ 210

1/400 f 5.6 FL 240 Av mode ISO 640 Ev 0

Topaz NR and Topaz IF, B&W set in levels

Comments appreciated

:S3: Reposting as OP not good, not sure what happened PP, looks blotchy Back to next raw in sequence of 3 pics
same exif , same pose, hope this is a little better
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Hi Richard,
The repost is better. I think the problem is underexposure or maybe not using some fill flash?. The image is quite dark. The placement of the bird in the frame is nice. The BG is busy but I am OK with it as it is " real life"!
Gail

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Hi Gail

You are right was in need of .5 stop
I also added a blue filter 20% as bc blocked
Struggled witht this one seemed to be getting problems with noise even at this ISO 640
should have used 400 and done beeter on exp

Ahh...Your latest post looks little over cooked...the grass in BG become very distracting...If mine I will try and add very slight exposure to bird selectively (should be very subtle) and then add over all exposure till the point where BG does not starts dominating the subject.

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Gotcha

thought as much

thx